It instructs the IPCO to oversee the participation of MI5 agents in criminal activity, which was previously conducted by the now-defunct office of the Intelligence Services Commissioner, under a secret order referred to as the “third direction”.

However, guidance about when British spies can commit crimes, and how far they can go, remains confidential.

The commissioner, Lord Justice Sir Adrian Fulford, said: “I welcome the government’s decision to make public my oversight of this sensitive area of work.”

The order was published after a legal battle by the human rights groups Reprieve and Privacy International.

Maya Foa, the director of Reprieve, said: “After a seven-month legal battle the prime minister has finally been forced to publish her secret order but we are a long way from having transparency.

“The public and parliament are still being denied the guidance that says when British spies can commit criminal offences and how far they can go.

“Authorised criminality is the most intrusive power a state can wield. Theresa May must publish this guidance without delay.”

Millie Graham Wood, a solicitor at Privacy International, said there was no justification why the secret direction was not published earlier.

“Had we not sought to challenge the government over the failure to publish this direction, together with Reprieve, it is questionable whether it would have ever been brought to light,” she said. “It is wrong in principle for there to be entire areas of intelligence oversight and potentially of intelligence activity, about which the public knows nothing at all.”

The MI5 website says agents are “one of the most significant information gathering assets we have”, adding “intelligence from our agents is critical to keeping the UK safe”.

It also states: “Public views of what MI5 agents do are often based on fiction and not always accurate. There are many misunderstandings about what our agents do, as we cannot say much about those who help us, given our commitment to protect their identity.”

Beleaguered Oxfam trustee Caroline Thomson, who made a ‘full and unqualified apology’ to Britain and Haiti, is no stranger to being at the vortex of a major corporate scandal.

In a previous role at the BBC, she was dragged into the controversy over the cover-up of paedophile DJ Jimmy Savile’s activities, as well as a row over excessive pay-offs for BBC executives.

There was widespread criticism of Ms Thomson — who uses her maiden name rather than her title by marriage, Lady Liddle — when, before she became chairman of Oxfam’s trustees, she left the BBC (where she was chief operating officer) with a £670,000 pay-off — more than twice her £330,000 salary.

Astonishingly, she got this eye-watering sum even though she wanted to quit.

In a previous role at the BBC, Oxfam trustee Caroline Thomson was dragged into the controversy over the cover-up of paedophile DJ Jimmy Savile’s activities

Indeed, she was one of several BBC bigwigs who left with huge pay-offs — totalling £4 million in one year — after the Savile scandal.

As a result, Margaret Hodge, then chairwoman of the Commons spending watchdog, said there was ‘gross incompetence’ in the way the BBC handled the golden handshakes.

The MP had questioned senior BBC executives and said it was an ‘unedifying experience’ watching them ‘try to avoid responsibility’.

During questioning, former BBC director general Mark Thompson defended the severance payments, denying that the Corporation had ‘lost the plot’.

In reference to Ms Thomson, Ms Hodge said her redundancy pay-off was effectively paid to ‘compensate’ her for missing out on the job of director-general during the fallout from Savile.

To compound matters, when one shamed BBC executive repaid part of his £300,000 settlement, Ms Thomson was asked if she would do the same.

With haughty disdain, she replied: ‘No. I’m not.’ Insisting that the licence-fee-payers’ funded money was her contractual entitlement, she said: ‘I would have earned a lot more when I was working for ITV.’

Caroline Thomson was one of several BBC bigwigs who left with huge pay-offs — totalling £4 million in one year — after the Savile scandal. Above, Jimmy Savile

This debacle followed the Jimmy Savile scandal when it was alleged that the BBC had pulled a BBC2 Newsnight investigation into allegations that the DJ had indulged in under-age sex and that Ms Thomson, along with other executives, failed to heed warnings that Savile was a serious paedophile.

‘In retrospect,’ she said after Savile died, ‘no one thought of it as a story about the BBC. I look back now and say: ‘Why didn’t I think it was a problem?’ But I didn’t.’

After quitting the BBC with her pay-off (including £14,000 for lawyers to negotiate the deal) and a £1.9 million pension pot, she became executive director of the English National Ballet.

Asked why she didn’t take a job in commercial TV (where she’d said she’d have earned much more), she responded: ‘I felt bruised by the manner of my departure and the speed of it. I wanted to do something different.’

Caroline Agnes Morgan Thomson, 63, has strong political links. Her father was Labour MP for Dundee before defecting to the SDP, became head of the Independent Broadcasting Authority and was ennobled as Baron Thomson of Monifieth.

After studying at York University, Ms Thomson joined the BBC as a trainee journalist. There, she met her future husband Roger Liddle, an early SDP activist who was a very close friend of Peter Mandelson, with whom he co-authored The Blair Revolution, which championed an EU ‘of deeper economic integration among nation-states bound together by common rules and united by a clear social purpose’.

Margaret Hodge, then chairwoman of the Commons spending watchdog, said there was ‘gross incompetence’ in the way the BBC handled the golden handshakes

They also said: ‘The single currency is the natural complement to a single market’.

Liddle then became a policy adviser to Blair on Europe, in 1997, and joined him as an aide in No 10 for seven years.

But ‘Mandelson’s bagman’ became embroiled in a sleazy cash-for-access scandal.

Another Mandelson crony, Derek ‘Dolly’ Draper, was caught telling an undercover reporter posing as a businessman that he could provide early sight of confidential government reports and that in exchange for money he would open government doors to him — one being that of Liddle’s office.

Draper duly pressed Liddle into service and the latter was quoted telling the undercover reporter: ‘There is a circle and Derek is part of the circle . . . Whenever you are ready, tell me what you want, who you want to meet, and Derek and I will make the call for you.’

Blair rejected demands to dismiss Liddle who denied the allegations — the consensus being that he was saved solely because his reported remark was not tape-recorded.

After Downing Street, Liddle was an adviser to European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and having been ennobled for long service as a Blairite ultra is a key figure in the Lords in the battle against Brexit.

During a debate about leaving the EU, he declared his intention to fight Brexit as long as he lived.

As for his wife, she continues to amass well-paid public jobs: chairman of Digital UK (which is responsible for digital terrestrial TV); a director of UKGI (a government quango responsible for corporate governance); as well as two in the private sector, a director of Vitec Group (which provides services for broadcasters) and on the board of CN multi-media group.

Thomson once said women in business ‘must have the self-belief to say you don’t understand some-thing in meetings . . . Men always say when they don’t get things.’

Yet by her own admission, she did not ask the right questions about Jimmy Savile. Might she now be asking similar questions of herself about Oxfam?

… AND LABOUR MONEY MAN WHO BECAME CHARITY’S TREASURER

A former adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, David Pitt-Watson, 58 — Oxfam’s honorary treasurer since 2011 — was finance director of the Labour Party from 1997-99.

He was offered the post of Labour general secretary in 2008 but decided not to take it — to the disappointment of Brown, then PM.

The City fund manager’s influence at Oxfam — along with his links to the Labour Party — may partly explain why the charity has become highly politicised and veered dramatically to the Left.

David Pitt-Watson (pictured) — Oxfam’s honorary treasurer since 2011 — was finance director of the Labour Party from 1997-99

In 2014, Oxfam was criticised for a faux film poster, showing a broiling sea under clouds titled: The Perfect Storm. Added were the words ‘starring zero hours contracts, high prices, benefit cuts, unemployment, childcare costs’.

A message above read: ‘Lifting the lid on austerity Britain reveals a perfect storm — and it’s forcing more and more people into poverty.’ Meanwhile, on Twitter Oxfam invited people to hear how ‘we investigate the reasons why so many people are turning to food banks in Britain 2014’.

Pitt-Watson (pictured), also an executive fellow at London Business School, was chairman of the United Nations environment programme’s finance initiative in the run-up to the Paris Climate summit.

The son of a cleric his grandfather was moderator of the Church of Scotland in the Fifties. He has written a number of books and pamphlets but denies he’s a member of an ivory-towered elite.

‘I have never understood the notion that there is a divorce between the real world and the academic world,’ he says.

‘I don’t get it. The academic world is there reflecting, explaining, understanding the real world.’

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Wed 24th MAY 2017

Police Scotland – Protect Scotland Information Leaflet update

Police Scotland – Protect Scotland Information Leaflet update

The investigation into the terrorist attack in Manchester is large scale, fast moving and making good progress. There has been an arrest and there are currently multiple searches and other activity taking place. At this stage however, it is still not possible to be certain whether or not a wider group was involved in the attack; 24 hours in we have a number of investigative leads that we are pursuing to manage the ongoing threat.This concern led, last night, to the independent Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre to raise the threat level to “critical”. This means that their assessment is, not only that an attack remains highly likely, but a further attack may be imminent.

Businesses would expect the police to do everything possible to prevent further attacks and keep them safe. Police Scotland are flexing their resources to increase police presence at key sites (such as transport and other crowded places) and they are reviewing key events over the coming weeks.

Police Scotland We need businesses to continue to support this effort by ensuring your own staff and buildings are prepared to deal with an attack.

We continue to offer support through Project Griffin and Project Argus.

Where you have them, we encourage your security staff to be vigilant and proactive in monitoring your business areas for suspicious activity.

Where businesses are co-located, we recommend that you work together to ensure your shared areas are protected.

Try and minimise crowds at your business and make sure you are aware of who is coming in and out of your premises.

Keep buildings secure where appropriate.

Pay attention to areas around exits, especially when large numbers of staff and customers are due to leave

Project Griffin is an internationally acclaimed development tool for businesses to help protect their staff and local communities from terrorism. This awareness day has been organised in your area, it is free to attend and will last up to 3 hours. The following will be discussed: The terrorist threat; current terrorist tactics; firearms and weapons attacks; IED reporting and evacuation procedures; terrorist hostile reconnaissance. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/project-griffin-tickets-34236701897

Photography and terrorism: Day in the life of Project Griffin July 26, 2011Photography’s role in “hostile reconnaissance” is highlighted in anti-terror training sessions which are set to be extended to police forces nationwide. Chris Cheesman reports from Gatwick Airport…

“Anyone can be a terrorist, forget the image you may have,”declared Detective Sergeant Nev Hay, a specialist firearms officer at the Counter Terrorism Intelligence Unit (CTIU).

Hay was welcoming around 35 people to a Project Griffin Awareness Day, a police-led initiative that calls on security guards and others to report people behaving suspiciously, to help fight terrorism and crime.

The Special Branch officer’s words would later take on an air of tragic poignancy, coming just hours before a terrorist slaughtered scores of people in Norway, the story dominating the world’s news on the evening of 22 July 2011.

When first introduced by City of London Police seven years ago Project Griffin’s remit was to advise and familiarise managers, security officers and employees of large public and private sector organisations on security, counter-terrorism and crime prevention issues.

In short, it aims to gather and share intelligence and information and provide police with more eyes and ears on the ground, explained Hay.

The courses are police funded and attendance is voluntary. Gatwick Airport adopted the scheme in 2008 and runs an awareness day every other month.

The audience at this particular session – hosted by Sussex Police – primarily comprised airport employees, such as immigration staff and shop workers.

The rest were Gatwick-based private security guards, seated – school classroom-like – in a featureless conference room on the ground floor of a hotel close to the airport.

Joining them as a guest, was Amateur Photographer (AP)s news editor Chris Cheesman, there on the exclusive invitation of Superintendent Brian Bracher, Gatwick Airport Operations commander, a keen photographer and reader of the magazine.

Why it matters to photographers

As it turned out, AP’s attendance was a timely one. Though Project Griffin has already been adopted by more than 20 UK police forces, that figure may soon double as the scheme is extended to all forces.

Here’s why Project Griffin and projects like it matter to photographers.

A key plank of the UK’s national counter-terrorism strategy is the reporting of ‘hostile reconnaissance’. Crucially, as far as amateur and professional photographers are concerned, this is based on the rationale that terrorists can use photography when planning an attack. Innocent photographers have been caught in the front lineof anti-terror policy for years. Despite years of campaigning, photographers continue to clash with security personel, in publicly accessible areas such as shopping centres. Campaigners – including Amateur Photographer – recently brought the issue to Westminster, in talks with counter-terrorism officialsfollowing the Government’s recent counter-terrorism policy overhaul.

Among the Project Griffin players is DC Ben Sendall, an intelligence officer at CTIU, who presents a slide showing the group how a mobile phone can be used to photograph a building.

“All terrorist attacks will be preceded by a period of hostile reconnaissance, We need to deal with terrorists at the planning stage,”

he said, explaining that the UK’s iconic targets and infrastructure are at the forefront of a terrorist’s thinking.

He drew on the example of a man he said was suspected of conducting a recce in shopping areas around Bristol and Bath. “It’s not about being a card-carrying member of al-Qaeda,” he explained.

‘Engage in conversation’

Hostile reconnaissance forms part of Operation Lightningwhich is, in turn, part of Operation Fairway – an umbrella name for the UK’s anti-terror operations.

“Any time that a police officer deals with hostile reconnaissance, this gets fed into the Operation Fairway office at New Scotland Yard,” said DC John Fish Eley, another Project Griffin trainer.

The police database records suspicious sightings at crowded or vulnerable places around the UK.

Eley talks the audience through an al-Qaeda training video that shows how filming was used to record “traffic flow” before an attack on two hotels in Baghdad in 2005.

In another example, he said filming was used in a plot to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Canberra, Australia in 2000.

“The more intelligence they can gather the more chance [there is] of an attack being a success,” said Eley, who told the group they should observe and question suspicious behaviour. “Engage the individual in conversation, assess their response.”

Evidence of potential hostile reconnaissance, he said, can include [still] cameras, video cameras, plans, sketches and maps, the possession of which should be assessed in the context of any suspect behaviour already noted.

“If you are not happy we [the police] must be informed.”

Eley told the audience they should “be courteous” when approaching someone, before assessing suspicious signs such as a rehearsed response to questioning, sweating, or pauses in the person’s answers.

‘Remain alert, not alarmed’

Project Griffin’s trainers – who work with the MI5 and MI6 Security Services

– say they want to drive home the message that “if you feel something is wrong, you are normally right”

Hay recounted the experience of a previous attendee who asked whether he should have reported a person he saw “filming” inside Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. “You need to report this,” the Gatwick group was told.

The message is loud and clear: “Remain alert, not alarmed. Never be complacent.”

The Gatwick group was given a detailed history of terrorism tactics before they were subjected to a series of graphic videos, depicting actual terrorist atrocities.

And, if the audience were not already jumpy, they may have had plenty of reason to be when Sergeant Tony Hendon calmly unwrapped a surface-to-air missile from its protective bag.

Hendon showed how it could be launched from a man’s shoulder, before treating the group to a history of such projectiles – confusingly dubbed MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defence Systems).

Participants were assured that the risk of one of these being launched at a plane is “low”, but the group was advised to report any suspicious activity around the airport as it could signal hostile reconnaissance.

Further reassurance was delivered when Hendon explained that Gatwick’s resident band of plane spotters are the airport’s “greatest assets”.

He said these enthusiasts have the potential to provide security officials with details of any strangers seen wandering around the airport’s perimeter. “They know who the real spotters are and who aren’t”.

In a video summarising the day, photography’s apparent role in terrorism planning was further emphasised. The short movie told the fictional tale of a terrorist “scoping” a shopping centre, using an SLR to take pictures inside and outside the building. A police officer is seen quizzing the man – who claims he is a student taking pictures for a project – before filing his report back at the station.

Later the officer tells a colleague: “It was just a feeling, nothing concrete. Even if nothing comes of it, I know I have filed my report. I did my job.”

Later, it emerges that the man seen taking pictures played a key role in the planning of this made-up plot. This final message was doubtlessly ringing in the ears of each attendee as they headed for the door at the end of their training day, as were DS Hay’s parting words:

Operation Temperer: Army called in to support police in bid to prevent second terror attack

ARMED troops are to guard nuclear power plants in Scotland and other sensitive sites across the UK as the police said they were now investigating a “network” linked to the Manchester bomber.

More of the 22 murder victims have been named. Their number includes an off-duty female police officer. Meantime, fears grow for 14-year-old Eilidh MacLeod, from Barra, who, three days on, remains unaccounted for.

As many of the young victims of the terror attack continue to receive hospital treatment, it emerged how one, Freya Lewis, also 14, underwent 10 and a half hours of surgery to her wounds. It is thought her life was saved by a couple who gave her CPR. She is in a stable condition.

QVS is at the centre of extraordinary allegations

Sun, Apr 30, 2017

SENSATIONAL claims about a VIP paedophile ring at a prestigious Scots boarding school are to be aired at Holyrood’s child abuse inquiry.

The evidence will include claims that Dunblane killer Thomas Hamilton was connected to the network, which is also said to have included leading members of the Scottish establishment.

Queen Victoria School (QVS), which is funded by the Ministry of Defence and has Prince Philip as its patron, is at the centre of the extraordinary allegations.

It was not included in the first round of boarding schools and other establishments identified by the inquiry team, sparking fears of a cover-up.

However, a former teacher at the Dunblane school who has spent decades attempting to unmask the abusers has now been invited to tell his story.

A former teacher spent decades attempting to unmask the abusers

After almost 27 years of being ignored, someone is listening and wants to know what really happened to me at QVS

Glenn Harrison

Glenn Harrison was a housemaster at QVS when he began to suspect that a shadowy cabal of powerful individuals was preying on the pupils.

However, when he tried to raise the alarm in 1991 the police responded by breaking down the door to his flat, seizing his personal papers and hauling him in to be interviewed.

Yesterday, Mr Harrison said: “After almost 27 years of being ignored, someone is listening and wants to know what really happened to me at QVS. I am pleased and eager to share the experience and emphasise the need for authorities to listen to children when they complain as well as teachers and carers especially in institutions. I hope my experience will help to create a more caring and safer environment for young people in the future.”

After leaving QVS, Mr Harrison and his family relocated to Orkney and he made numerous attempts to have his allegations investigated over the years.

Police Scotland detectives are investigating at least two cases of historical abuse

The case was finally referred to the Scottish Government’s historical child abuse inquiry in 2015, as revealed exclusively by this newspaper.

Earlier this month, it also emerged that Police Scotland detectives are investigating at least two cases of historical abuse linked to QVS. One of them involves former teacher Ben Philip, who died after falling from a ladder at the school in 1993.

Children of Scottish service personnel are eligible to attend QVS, which is now mixed but was an all-boys school at the time of the allegations. It is governed by a Board of Her Majesty’s Commissioners appointed by the Queen, the Scottish Secretary and the Defence Secretary.

Fife campaigner Tom Minogue, a long-time supporter of Mr Harrison, has also been invited to give evidence by the inquiry’s witness support team. He said: “I never thought we’d get to this point because of the cast of characters involved with QVS, starting with the Duke of Edinburgh as patron and running down through some of the most powerful people in the land as Her Majesty’s Commissioners.

“The great and the good don’t want us to speak about any of this, starting with the fact that Thomas Hamilton was running about the place.”

Mr Harrison’s allegations centre on a group of men who would allegedly take pupils away for weekends and return them “distressed but flush with cash”.Five years after the claims were first reported to the police, 16 children and one teacher were shot at Dunblane Primary School by evil Hamilton. To his horror, Mr Harrison recognised the fiend as a frequent visitor to QVS.In evidence submitted to the inquiry, Mr Harrison states: “When I enquired about him (as well as other unknown visitors), I was told they were ‘friends of Queen Victoria School’; I have never to this day been able to find out who these ’friends’ were.”The Cullen Inquiry later heard that Hamilton took youth clubs camping in the QVS grounds, that he arranged for an acquaintance to get a summer job at the school and that he took another man shooting at the school’s firing range.

Mr Minogue said the implications of this evidence had never been properly explored and added: “These references quite clearly corroborate Glenn’s story and show that Her Majesty’s Commissioners either didn’t know what was going on at the school they were charged with governing, or they have been less than truthful.”

An MoD spokeswoman said: “We take any allegations of this nature very seriously and any claims of historical abuse involving Queen Victoria School have been passed to the police. We will fully co-operate with their inquiries.”

Anyhoo, back to Dominic Noonan wiki, For those who don’t know, he is openly gay

According to my Mancunian source, Noonan is a child rapist. The writer of the followingQUOTEalso agrees

“from what ppl who live in the area that i know have told me when dessie noonan wanted to hurt someone bad they would beat the crap out of them and then dominic would rape them. I have heard that the guy who killed dessie was the brother of one of the lads who had been raped.”

“Noonan was one of the leaders of the prison revolt at Strangeways in the early nineties. A member of ‘Prisoners Liberation Army,”here

WATCHA VERY BRITISH GANGSTERDocumentary about one of Britain’s most dangerous crime families and introduces us to its magnetic, larger-than-life leader, Dominic Noonan

FUNNILY ENOUGH, in March (2017) Nonnan was up in court AGAIN. This time..

“HISTORIC” CHILD ABUSE

Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy, also known as Dominic Noonan, is to go on trial later this year accused of historic sex offences against boys as young as nine.

The 53-year-old from Moston appeared at Manchester Crown Court where he denied nine sex charges relating to three male victims.

He denies nine charges relating to three male victims

The offences span a 30-year period, with the earliest complainant alleging he was nine or 10 when he was indecently assaulted. The most recent complainant says he was a teenage boy when he was molested. The age of the second complainant, who says he was indecently assaulted in the nineties, was not revealed in court.

Mr Lattlay-Fottfoy appeared at court on videolink and answered all of the charges with the reply ‘not guilty’ when they were put to him by the clerk.

While he goes by the name of Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy, he will be tried as ‘aka Dominic Noonan’. The trial is expected to last ten days and is scheduled to begin in the autumn.

Mr Lattlay-Fottfoy denies four charges of indecent assault, two charges of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, two sexual assaults, and a single charge of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

KNOW PAEDO SATANIST, NECROPHILIAC & ALL ROUND FUKSHITE JIMMY SAVILE

& MARIANNE FAITHFULL – Daughter of MI6 agent MAJOR ROBERT GLYNN FAITHFULL who was the interrogation officer that CAPT THOMAS SELVESTER handed Himmler over to. Funnily enough Marianne’s great grand uncle was LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH author of Venus in Furs & the word MASOCHISM comes from him!! & if that wasn’t enough, Marianne’s paternal grandfather invented a sexual device called the Frigidity Machine that allegedly was designed to give women orgasms. But sounds more like a sexual torture device to me!

According to Marianne, he tried it out on her mother, HIS SON’S NEW WIFE?!!Eva, Baroness Erisso, who was descended from the Sacher-Masoch long line of Austro-Hungarian aristocrats.

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The Royle Family star has accused the broadcaster of being an Mi5 spy who helped put him and other striking workers behind bars in the 70s

Richard Whiteley is best remembered as the jovial host of Countdown, but Ricky Tomlinson has claimed there was a darker side to the popular presenter.

The Royle Family star has accused the broadcaster of being an Mi5 spy who helped put him and other striking workers behind bars in the 70s.

And he said had he know of his alleged involvement in the plot when he appeared on Countdown he would have throttled him.

Whiteley fronted a documentary called Red Under The Bed that showed unions in a bad light and was screened as the jury in Ricky’s trial was out deliberating. The presenter’s partner Kathryn Apanowicz laughed off suggestions her husband was a spy as “nonsense”.

But Ricky claimed: “Richard was a member of the security services, people didn’t know that, obviously.”The security services paid to have the programme made, so they had to use someone of their own ilk to be the chairperson. It was common knowledge. “The security services use media people as part of the intelligence services. I must have done Countdown four or five times.

“I didn’t know at the time, I wish I had known, I’d have strangled him. There’s all sorts of people involved. It was a carve up right from the go.”

Ricky, 77, claims he has leaked, confidential documents which link then-PM Ted Heath and politician Woodrow Wyatt to the documentary, which he believes swayed the jury into convicting him of conspiracy to intimidate, unlawful assembly and affray

But asked where the papers came from, he added: “I can’t reveal my sources, we’d be hung, drawn and quartered. People would lose their jobs.”

Ricky took part in a 12 week building workers’ walkout in 1972, demanding better wages and safety regimes.

Months after the dispute ended, he was one of 24 strikers held over picket line clashes. Six went on trial the following year at Shrewsbury crown court and he was jailed for two years, serving 16 months.

Ricky believes the documentary prompted two jurors to change their original verdicts to guilty.

The hour-long film was followed by a 30-minute studio discussion, chaired by Whiteley.

But radio presenter Kathryn, who was his partner from 1994 until his death at the age of 61, branded the claims a “load of tripe”.

She added: “He couldn’t even keep a secret, how would he be good in MI5?

“I knew everything about Richard and this is nonsense. He could hardly work his mobile phone, never mind gadgets, he’d have been hopeless.

“I’m slightly annoyed because it’s easy to cast aspersions on somebody who has died, because you can’t libel the dead.

“It’s nice that Ricky is managing to get a lot of publicity from somebody who can’t defend himself.”

But she insisted Whiteley had a sense of humour and would be “looking down, laughing his head off” at the claims

Kathryn added: “A friend said, ‘Did you realise you were a spy’s mole?’ Maybe I could have a new career? Please tell Daniel Craig I’m available.”

Ricky has for many years been trying to clear the names of the strikers, known as the Shrewsbury 24. In 2002, it was revealed Mi5 had been monitoring him.

Ricky said he plans to reveal the small amount of documents he has. He added: “There will be a few more things coming to light in the next few weeks.”

Actor Ricky Tomlinson claims he has evidence that the presenter collaborated in a secret plot to get him jailed.

Kathryn Apanowicz says Tomlinson’s claims about her husband are nonsense

By Duarte Garrido, Entertainment Reporter

The wife of late broadcaster Richard Whiteley has denied “ridiculous” claims that her husband worked for MI5.

Kathryn Apanowicz said Whiteley’s asthma and poor grasp of technology and maths meant there was no chance he could have coped with a secret career in espionage.

It comes after actor and union activist Ricky Tomlinson accused the former Countdown host of conspiring with the Government and orchestrating a plot to have him and a group known as the Shrewsbury 24 jailed.

Tomlinson said a documentary presented by Whiteley, entitled Red Under The Bed, was propaganda designed to influence a jury that went on to convict him for offences linked to the 1972 builders’ strike.

The Royle Family star said he has classified documents which show the then prime minister, Sir Edward Heath, and Labour MP Woodrow Wyatt were involved in the conspiracy.

Tomlinson was convicted for offences linked to the 1972 builders’ strike

“We found out this week that the film was designed, written, made and paid for by the security services,” Tomlinson told the Chester Chronicle.

“Woodrow Wyatt was a member of the security services and, unbelievably, so was Richard Whiteley, who hosted the show.”

Apanowicz, who was married to Whiteley for 11 years, branded the claims “ridiculous” and said the family had been in “hysterics”.

Whiteley died in 2005 aged 61 after undergoing heart surgery

“Really and truly, Ricky Tomlinson should take a long, hard look at himself and stop casting such stupid aspersions because it’s nonsense, he’s made himself look a bloody fool,” she said.

The actress said Whiteley, who died in 2005 after undergoing heart surgery, “was the most indiscreet person” she knew, and “could not keep a secret for toffee”.

“Number one, he had an asthma inhaler so running around and escaping from whoever was chasing after him, he wouldn’t be able to do that,” she said.

“He couldn’t work technology, it’s nonsense. In those days, he didn’t have an Aston Martin, he had a brown Ford Escort,” she added.

The mystery over Richard Whiteley’s alleged links to MI5 has taken a new twist after it emerged the Countdown star went to Moscowat the height of the Cold War.

Mr Whiteley was part of a group of space enthusiasts visiting the Soviet Union in 1974 under the guidance of eccentric astronomer Patrick Moore.

The news will fuel rumours of the presenter’s links to the world of spycraft, which were started by actor Ricky Tomlinson but dismissed as ‘nonsense’ by former friends.

Mr Whiteley was one of ’20 or 30′ people on the trip who were ‘all space geeks’, a woman who took part told Sean O’Neill ofThe Times.

She said of Mr Whiteley, who presented a current affairs show for Yorkshire Television at the time: ‘I don’t know why he was on tour, no idea where he was there.’

However, the lady – now an academic – said that ‘not at one moment’ did she think he was a spy.

Mr Tomlinson, 77, made the startling claim that Whiteley worked for MI5 in an interview as he opened a relaunched Wetherspoons pub in Chester.

But Whiteley’s girlfriend when he died, Kathryn Apanowicz, 56, a presenter with BBC Radio York, said: ‘It is absolute bloody nonsense, there is no truth in it whatsoever.

Royle Family actor Ricky Tomlinson (pictured opening the pub in Chester, where trade union meetings used to be held) claims Richard Whiteley was a spy

The 77-year-old actor (left, on Who Do You Think You Are) believes the late Countdown presenter (right, with Carol Vorderman) was an undercover agent for MI5

Sir Patrick Moore, the astronomer and Sky at Night presenter who inspired a generation of stargazers, pictured in a photo released after his death in October 2012

‘If Richard was a member of the secret service then maybe Ken Dodd was in charge of MI5.

‘He couldn’t keep a secret to save his life and he certainly wasn’t a spy; in the Seventies he was driving around in a Ford Escort.’

Mr Whiteley was a student at Cambridge University between 1962 and 1965, graduating with a third-class degree in English from Christ’s College.

The university is known to be a recruiting ground for the secret services and was attended by the notorious double agents Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt.

But Gyles Brandreth, who was a regular on Countdown’s Dictionary Corner, said he had known Whiteley for 40 years and never got any hint he was a spy.

And former Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken, who knew Whiteley, called the claims ‘pretty good baloney’.

Mr Tomlinson, a socialist activist, claims Mr Whiteley influenced the jury when he was jailed in 1973 for conspiracy to intimidate, unlawful assembly and affray.

Along with his ‘Shrewsbury Two’ partner Des Warren, the actor had helped to organise the first national building workers’ strike in the upstairs room of the same Wetherspoons pub where he first aired the claims, The Bull & Stirrup.

He believes that the jury’s decision to convict him may have been swayed by an ITV documentary which featured the defendants that was aired on the day they retired to deliver their verdict – and which was fronted by Mr Whiteley.

He alleges the secret services wrote, produced and funded the documentary.

The 77-year-old actor is pictured with Caroline Ahern as Denise in the sitcom

A woman who was part of the visit to Moscow said of Mr Whiteley, who presented a current affairs show for Yorkshire Television at the time: ‘I don’t know why he was on tour’

He told the Chester Chronicle: ‘I’ve got documents at home, which are printed “confidential”, “strictly confidential”, “not to be seen”, but it involves the likes of Ted Heath, Woodrow Wyatt.

‘And we’ve just discovered that they made a film which went out on television the night the jury were out considering the verdict called Red Under the Bed and it was so anti-trade union that two of the jury changed their mind and brought a majority verdict in of 10-2 guilty.’

He added: ‘We found out this week that the film was designed, written, made and paid for by the security services.

‘Woodrow Wyatt was a member of the security services and unbelievably so was Richard Whiteley who hosted the show.’

The 12-week strike took place after UK building contractors imposed what trade unionists called ‘bogus self-employment’ rules on their workforce.

The 1973 trial was seen at the time as an attempt to shackle militant, rank-and-file trade unionism.

Actress and radio presenter Kathryn Apanowicz, who was Whiteley’s partner for 11 years. They are pictured together in 2004 at Buckingham Palace when Whiteley received an OBE

Whiteley, pictured with Carol Vorderman, fronted Countdown for 23 years

Mr Tomlinson, who appeared alongside Caroline Aherne in Royle Family, said the union meetings were held in The Bull & Stirrup where all the decisions were made.

In December 2015, former shadow home secretary Andy Burnham released documents showing that former prime minister Edward Heath’s cabinet and the security services influenced the Red Under the Bed documentary.

The Shrewsbury 24 campaign is calling for the convictions to be overturned by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

Mr Tomlinson, who also played Bobby Grant in Brookside, claimed his friend Warren, who died aged 66 in 2004, had effectively served a life sentence, because drugs given to him in prison brought on Parkinson’s Disease.

He said: ‘It killed him, didn’t it? We know of four sedatives that were used on him. We also have certain evidence about a doctor that followed him into jail giving him injections.’

THE ACTIVIST TURNED ACTOR WHO WAS MONITORED BY MI5

Ricky Tomlinson was born as Eric Tomlinson in Blackpool, Lancashire, after his mother Peggy was evacuated there during the Liverpool Blitz in World War II.

A qualified plasterer by trade, he worked on various building sites for many years becoming actively involved in politics – firstly with the far-right, then more predominantly with the far-left.

Along with his ‘Shrewsbury Two’ partner Des Warren, Mr Tomlinson had helped to organise the first national building workers’ strike. He is pictured with his wife Marlene after being freed from Leicester prison

Mr Tomlinson (right), a trade unionist, is pictured left leaving a Trade Union Conference in tears

In 1968, Mr Tomlinson joined the National Front in support of less immigration after Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech.

His views gradually changed over time and, in 1972, he joined the flying pickets in a building workers’ dispute in Shrewsbury.

The following year, Mr Tomlinson was sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of ‘conspiracy to intimidate’ as one of the so-called Shrewsbury Two, alongside his partner Des Warren.

He was released in 1975, he disrupted the TUC conference by shouting from the wings after he had been prevented from speaking from the stage. It was revealed in 2002 that MI5 had monitored him during the 1970s.

The 12-week strike took place after UK building contractors imposed what trade unionists called ‘bogus self-employment’ rules on their workforce. Mr Tomlinson played an active role in the protests and was later convicted

Whiteley died in 2005. Before Cambridge, he had attended the prestigious Giggleswick School in Yorkshire, where he was taught by TV presenter Russell Harty.

He joined Yorkshire Television in July 1968. In 1982, the channel started to produce Countdown and Whiteley was chosen as host. He remained on the show for 23 years.

For 11 years, he was in a relationship with actress and radio presenter Kathryn Apanowicz until 2005.

Whiteley had a son, James, with fashion journalist and television presenter Lesley Ebbetts who born in 1987.

He also dated Jeni Cropper for 15 years to him in the 1970s and 80s. He also had a brief relationship with Carry On film actress Angela Grant.

The judge at the helm of an historic child abuse review in Scotland is being urged to investigate a top private school with links to the royal family.

Glenn Harrison, a former housemaster at Dunblane’s Queen Victoria School (QVS), has raised fresh concern that pupils were sexually abused by a paedophile ring during the 1980s and 1990s. He first blew the whistle 26 years ago but has written to Lady Anne Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish child abuse inquiry, making a new case for its inclusion in her review.

The prestigious school, attended by children of Scottish servicemen and women, did not feature on a list published in January that detailed more than 60 establishments under investigation.

The omission has raised eyebrows in legal circles and among child abuse campaigners who believe that there is a prima facie case for fresh examination of Harrison’s claims.

The Sunday Times understands that discussions about the school’s inclusion arose shortly after ministers announced the inquiry in October 2015. It was argued that as the independent boarding school is funded by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), it might fall within the remit of a mirror inquiry running in England and Wales.

On Friday, a spokesman for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said its remit was to consider institutional failure to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation in England and Wales. Although the inquiry can consider failures by English and Welsh institutions outside those two countries, it said there are “no current plans to investigate issues” relating to Queen Victoria School.

The admission has prompted fresh calls for Lady Smith to include the Dunblane school in her abuse inquiry, particularly in light of Harrison’s approach. Simon Collins, a lawyer representing the charity In Care Abuse Survivors, said: “My view is that if abuse is alleged to have taken place in Scotland, then it should be considered as part of the Scottish inquiry.”

One lawyer, who asked not to be named, said it was “disgraceful” that QVS was not among the institutions named in January, which included leading private schools such as Gordonstoun and Fettes. However, a spokeswoman for the inquiry said more establishments in Scotland could yet be investigated.

Queen Victoria School, which counts the Duke of Edinburgh as its patron, has been dogged by claims that pupils were abused by high-ranking government officials since Harrison raised concern in a letter to parents in 1991.

At the time, he was convinced that young boys were in danger and claimed that a group known as Friends of QVS would often take boys away for the weekend, with the pupils returning “distressed but flush with cash”.

It was later claimed that Thomas Hamilton, the man who carried out the Dunblane massacre in 1996, was a paedophile who had close ties to the school. Several investigations, by the police and the now-defunct Scottish Schools Inspectorate, failed to find evidence to support Harrison’s concerns.

A spokeswoman from the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, said: “We are currently undertaking over 60 investigations into individual establishments. We will announce further investigations in due course. The fact that a particular establishment was not mentioned at the preliminary hearing does not mean that it will not be investigated. We would encourage anyone with relevant evidence to come forward and share their experience.”

They say that the cult regularly slaughtered children as ritual sacrifices in church

The woman claim that the former prime minister was part of a paedophile ring

If the allegations are true it would make the cult the worst child murderers in British history

A Group of women who say they were abused by Sir Edward Heath also claim their parents ran a satanic sex cult that was involved in 16 murders 01:15, 20 Feb 2017

They say that the cult regularly slaughtered children as ritual sacrifices in church

The woman claim that the former prime minister was part of a paedophile ring

If the allegations are true it would make the cult the worst child murderers in British history

A group of women who say Sir Edward Heath abused them as children have also accused their parents of being involved in up to 16 murders.

The farce came as police probe incredible claims that the former prime minister was linked to a paedophile ring that killed as many as 16 children – which would make them the worst child murderers in British history.

The seemingly far-fetched allegations have been made by a family who allege that the politician was part of a satanic sex cult run by their own parents.

A group of women who say Sir Edward Heath abused them as children have also accused their parents of being involved in up to 16 murders

Police are probing incredible claims that the former prime minister was linked to a paedophile ring that killed as many as 16 children

They say that the cult regularly slaughtered children as ritual sacrifices in churches and forests around southern England and also participated in similar ceremonies in Africa.

They claim their mother and father – who is said to have known the former Conservative leader – were responsible for slaughtering children ranging from babies to teenagers – yet they evaded justice.

The paedophile ring – which they say Sir Edward was part of – stabbed, tortured and maimed youngsters in churches and burnt babies in satanic orgies before men, women and children gorged themselves on blood and body parts, police have been told.

If the bizarre allegations were to be proved, the parents who allegedly led the killings would be responsible for murdering more children than Fred and Rose West.

They would also be on a par with Thomas Hamilton, who shot dead 16 children in the 1996 Dunblane school massacre.

The women’s lurid claims were dismissed by police in 1989 when they came forward. Sir Edward’s name was never mentioned to police at the time. It was only last year that he was named for the first time after one of the claimants said she had ‘remembered’ a man called ‘Ed’ was a prime mover in a network of paedophile abusers.

But there is no suggestion that Sir Edward killed any children himself in the women’s accounts.

Wiltshire Police have spent more than a year investigating the allegations as part of an inquiry that has cost taxpayers over £883,431 and irretrievably tarnished the reputation of the unmarried politician, who died in 2005, aged 89.

Last night Sir Edward’s godson, Lincoln Seligman, said: ‘I understand that these claims from the 1980s were at the time dismissed as complete fantasy by police. It is disappointing that these wild allegations have been reheated and randomly attached to Edward Heath’s name.’

A Wiltshire Police spokesman said: ‘We are not prepared to discuss this as this is an on-going investigation.’

GODSON HITS OUT AT CHIEF’S CLAIM

The godson of Sir Edward Heath reacted angrily yesterday after it was claimed that a police chief is ‘120 per cent’ sure that sex abuse allegations against the former prime minister are genuine.

Wiltshire Chief Constable Mike Veale was reported to believe child abuse allegations against the late politician – which include lurid tales of satanic child slaughter – are ‘totally convincing’.

Mr Veale, whose force has been investigating the claims for 18 months, is also said to believe that Sir Edward was a paedophile whose crimes were covered up.

Police have established that, contrary to claims that Sir Edward could not have committed the crimes because he never drove a car and always had a police driver with him, he did drive and once had a car.

But the claims have infuriated Sir Edward’s godson, who dismissed it as a ‘PR hustle of some sort’ by the Wiltshire force ahead of an official report into the investigation. Lincoln Seligman, who has described the probe as a ‘witch-hunt’, has questioned how police can say the allegations are true, just on the basis that he may have driven a car.

Yesterday Mr Veale said: ‘The legal role of the police service is to, on behalf of the public, impartially investigate allegations without fear or favour, and go where the evidence takes us

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A probe into Sir Edward, called Operation Conifer, was set up in 2005.

Mr Veale, who aims to publish a report in June, was pressured to abandon the inquiry last year after separate claims of a paedo ring at Westminster involving ex Home Secretary the late Lord Brittan and ex defence chief Lord Bramall, were groundless.

Edward Heath with his piano at his home Arundells in Salisbury, Wiltshire

The police chief investigating claims that Sir Edward Heath was a paedophile is convinced the allegations are ‘120 per cent’ genuine, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

More than 30 people have come forward with claims of sexual abuse by the former Conservative Prime Minister, according to well-placed sources.

And they are said to have given ‘strikingly similar’ accounts of incidents to Wiltshire Police – even though the individuals are not known to each other.

The Mail on Sunday has been told that Wiltshire Chief Constable Mike Veale regards the allegations as ‘totally convincing’, and plans to publish a report in June.

Detectives have established that, contrary to claims that Sir Edward could not have committed the crimes as he ‘never drove a car’ and ‘always’ had a police driver with him, he did drive – and did have a car.

They have photographic evidence that shows he is a driver, and have established that he had a driving licence. He also bought a Rover 2000 after being deposed as Tory leader by Margaret Thatcher in 1975, when he was 58.

Astonishingly, Mr Veale is also understood to support claims that Sir Edward’s alleged crimes were reported to police years ago but covered up by the Establishment.

Some of those who said Sir Edward abused them are believed to have told police they went on to commit sexual abuse crimes themselves as a result.

The investigation into Sir Edward, called Operation Conifer, was set up in 2015 in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Mr Veale came under pressure to abandon the inquiry last year after separate claims of a paedophile ring at Westminster involving former Home Secretary, the late Lord Brittan, and former Defence chief, Lord Bramall, were found to be groundless.

Wiltshire Chief Constable Mike Veale regards the allegations as ‘totally convincing’, and plans to publish a report in June

Allegations that Sir Edward was involved in satanic orgies have been dismissed as fantasy by an expert asked to review the case.

However, The Mail on Sunday has been told that Mr Veale believes the paedophile allegations are genuine. A source said: ‘Mr Veale believes in them 120 per cent and thinks they are totally convincing.

‘There are very close similarities in the accounts given by those who have come forward. The same names used for him, the same places and same type of incidents keep coming up.

‘What stands out is that the people giving these accounts are not connected but the stories and the details dovetail.

‘It contains disturbing stuff. Investigators have been shocked by what they have learned.’

Another source said: ‘The police were initially sceptical about the allegations, but now believe them. And they have come round to the view that they were covered up in the past because of who Heath was.

DO THESE PHOTOS UNDERMINE EX PM’S DEFENCE

Sir Edward Heath seen with his car in Weymouth, despite claims he never drove

These are the photographs that appear to disprove the notion that the allegations against Sir Edward cannot be true because he ‘never drove a car’ and was always accompanied by police.

Both were taken in October 1975. In the main picture on the right, Heath is standing by the driver’s door of the Rover 2000 he bought after Margaret Thatcher ousted him as Tory leader in February that year. In the picture on the left, he is seen arriving at the Tory Party conference in Blackpool – in the driver’s seat.

The Mail on Sunday has learned that Wiltshire Police has also obtained photographic evidence of him driving.

The issue was first raised by former Cabinet Secretary Lord Armstrong, who worked with Sir Edward in No 10. Lord Armstrong said Sir Edward – whom he described as ‘asexual’ – had a 24-hour police guard and driver from the day he became PM in 1970 to his death in 2005, and did not have his own car.

‘When he was at home he had two policemen on the gate, he had the personal protection officer from Scotland Yard in the house, he never drove a car himself, he always had an official driver,’ said Lord Armstrong. ‘It seems highly unlikely he could have escaped all that to do the kind of thing that is described.’

Sir Edward Heath again pictured driving, this time leaving leaves the conference for the sea breezes of Weymouth

Sir Edward bought the Rover after losing the chauffeur-driven car he was entitled to as Prime Minister, then Opposition leader.

A confidant of the former PM said: ‘He definitely could and did drive, though was a notoriously bad one. When he went to music concerts in Salzburg and hired a car, he was meant to drive it because his British police guards weren’t officially allowed to.

‘But they insisted as they were frightened he was going to crash.’

‘They will not be deflected by the rich and powerful trying to do the same now. Mike Veale is doing a great job and should be congratulated for his courage.’

The disclosures come after several senior politicians dismissed the allegations against Heath as absurd and unfounded. Former Tory Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind complained Heath’s reputation was being ‘besmirched’. Heath’s sexuality has been the source of much speculation over the years. Some believed he was gay, others said he was ‘asexual.’ At one point, he was being investigated by no fewer than five police forces – the Met, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Kent and Jersey.

The claims, some of which have been proved false, include alleged links to a convicted brothel keeper known as Madame Ling-Ling. A paedophile dossier compiled by Labour peer Baroness Castle said he offered young boys trips on his yacht, and in a separate incident one man claimed Sir Edward picked him up hitchhiking in Kent as a 12-year-old in the 1960s and lured him to his Mayfair flat.

Labour MP Tom Watson also said he had received allegations about Sir Edward. However the claims Mr Veale is investigating, which date from the 1960s to 1990s, are not linked to the discredited evidence of the man known as ‘Nick’, who alleged a high-level paedophile ring.

One of the key counter-claims made when the allegations first surfaced came from former Cabinet Secretary Lord Armstrong, who worked with Heath when he was Prime Minister. He said Heath ‘never drove a car’ and always had at least one policeman with him from 1970 until his death in 2005.

Labour MP Tom Watson also said he had received allegations about Sir Edward

The fact that Sir Edward could drive was confirmed last night by a friend, who said the former Prime Minister bought a car in 1975, although Sir Edward was later given a chauffeur-driven car and police guard after IRA death threats.

Asked if Mr Veale believed the allegations against Sir Edward were ‘totally convincing’, a police spokesman said the Chief Constable was determined to ‘ensure the investigation is proportionate, measured and legal’ and that the job of the police was to ‘impartially investigate allegations without fear or favour and go where the evidence takes us. It is not the role of the police to judge the guilt or innocence of people in our criminal justice system.’

Further asked if Mr Veale had ‘120 per cent’ faith in the allegations, the spokesman declined to comment.

Police refuse to call off the dogs after VIP child sex ring fiasco

Launched in 2015 to investigate allegations against Sir Edward Heath, Operation Conifer has been dogged by claims that it traduces the reputation of a Prime Minister who died more than a decade ago and could not be put on trial.

The operation, which has a staff of 17 and has run up a bill approaching £1 million, did not get off to a good start when Wiltshire Chief Constable Mike Veale had to apologise for launching it in front of cameras outside Sir Edward’s former house, Arundells, in Salisbury.

Demands to call it off grew last November when Scotland Yard was forced to abandon its Operation Midland investigation into similar claims of a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster.

A police officer stands at the gate of Arundells, the former home of Heath when the probe was launched

Pressure on Operation Conifer mounted after this newspaper revealed how an expert, brought in by police to assess claims that Heath was linked to paedophiles who held satanic orgies, dismissed them as fantasy.

Days after The Mail on Sunday report, Mr Veale came out fighting and insisted Operation Conifer was not a ‘witch-hunt’.

In a surprise statement released on December 2, he said he refused to ‘buckle’ to demands to abandon the inquiry, and stressed his officers had not spoken to ‘Nick’, the man at the root of Operation Midland.

The Heath investigation was not a ‘fishing trip’, he said, adding that he was ‘duty-bound’ to go ahead with it ‘without fear or favour and go where the evidence takes us’.

He accused his critics of ignorance, and rebuked them for using ‘inappropriate and unacceptable pressure’ in an attempt to halt the inquiry.

Mr Veale said a ‘significant number of individuals’ had alleged abuse, but refused to say how many or give details of the only two people to be arrested.

He even said the findings of the investigation may never be made public, stating: ‘A confidential closing report will be written… and at that time I will take advice as to what I can legally put in the public domain.’

Police were ‘testing, checking and challenging the evidence and ensuring our approach is proportionate and justified’, he said.

Mr Veale argues that although Sir Edward died in 2005, other offenders may still be alive and victims could require support.

‘If the force had received allegations of non-recent child abuse against a former Prime Minister and done nothing, what would the reaction have been?’

Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool

Lincoln Seligman, Sir Edward’s godson, responded to Mr Veale’s December statement by saying: ‘If they have uncovered no evidence after 18 months they should say so.

And if Conifer is wound up, [Sir Edward] deserves to be exonerated as publicly as he was initially smeared. Shuffling the inquiry’s findings off into the night is not acceptable.’

Other aspects of Operation Conifer have also come under fire. Wiltshire Police interviewed key figures at Private Eye because the satirical magazine joked about unmarried Sir Edward’s sexuality 40 years ago.

They wanted to know if its nickname for him, ‘Sailor Ted’, in his days as PM from 1970 to 1974, was a reference to rumours that he was gay.

Police even asked current editor Ian Hislop what he knew about Heath, despite Hislop being a teenager during the period under investigation.

Officers have also tracked down former Downing Street staff to ask them if young men were ever sneaked into No 10.

Times writer and ex-Tory MP Matthew Parris dismissed the allegations, saying: ‘If Heath was a child abuser, I’m an aardvark.’

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So, is that it, then? There will be no more inquiries, or investigations, into the Kincora scandal following Sir Anthony Hart’s final report for the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry. Yes, the under-pressure Royal Ulster Constabulary was “inept”, according to Sir Anthony, in relation to the force investigating claims of child sexual abuse at the east Belfast care home in the 1970s. In addition, the RUC and the authorities were guilty of a “catalogue of failures” in dealing with the allegations swirling around about Kincora, the report found.

Crucially, however, the report did not find any evidence that the intelligence services, both MI5 and the Army, were aware of a paedophile ring operating at the home; or that the “spooks” were blackmailing the abusers to spy on fellow hardline Ulster loyalists in the first decade of the Troubles.

Sir Anthony said the idea that Kincora was a homosexual “brothel”, used by the security services as a “honeypot” to extract information about leading loyalists was without foundation.

In his report, the judge said: “There is no credible evidence to support any of these allegations.” He also insisted that the abuse did not extend beyond the three guilty staff members.

Finally, Sir Anthony was bitterly critical of the original Kincora whistleblowers – in particular, former Army intelligence officer Colin Wallace – for refusing to give evidence to the inquiry, held at Banbridge Courthouse.

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Lorry filmed going around Northern Ireland roundabout in wrong direction The judge did not mention that Wallace and others with alleged information about Kincora refused to take part in the inquiry because they believed the inquiry’s remit was too restricted.

Moreover, in the case of Wallace, in particular, he was outraged that Kincora was not also included into the national Westminster inquiry into allegations of paedophile rings at the heart of the British Establishment.

It is worth mentioning that Wallace did provide the Banbridge-based inquiry with 265 pages of comment, including documents supporting the claims made by former residents of Kincora.

In his statement released after the report, Wallace made the point that key intelligence files relating to Kincora housemaster and child abuser William McGrath have gone missing.

Wallace has emphasised that he was authorised as far back as 1973 by Army intelligence to brief the Ulster Press corps about McGrath’s activities. The former Army intelligence officer (who doubled as a Press officer at military headquarters in Lisburn) has made the point that an MI5 officer who tried to rubbish his claims was the same operative who allegedly ordered his colleague, Captain Brian Gemmell, to stop investigating McGrath and his perverted activities.

Most disturbing of all among Wallace’s allegations contained in the HIA final report is that there were documents in the hands of the Ministry of Defence and other governments for many years. He claims that this material was kept from the inquiry and that all of the information he supplied to the ‘Clockwork Orange’ military intelligence operations in the 1970s (designed to discredit major figures within Ulster loyalism) have not been handed over, either.

He is not on his own in terms of cynicism about the report’s analysis of the Kincora scandal. Former loyalist activist and writer Roy Garland, who was a former disciple of William McGrath, later broke with him in 1971 and sided, instead, with the Ulster Volunteer Force, which had originally infiltrated the weird Tara group McGrath founded.

Garland has made the point previously that Tara and McGrath were used by British intelligence to spread black propaganda against the likes of the UVF, accusing the terror group of being crypto-communist and in league with the likes of the Marxist Official IRA in the early to mid-1970s.

Most observers of the Kincora scandal, including the journalist Chris Moore, who wrote a book on the controversial care home, agree that there was no paedophile prostitution ring there. It was not a “honeypot”, providing young victims for sexually depraved members of the British Establishment, which some more lurid accounts of Kincora have claimed.

The smear tactics, however, of McGrath and Tara were very real and the brainchild of different sections of British intelligence.

To suggest that MI5 and military intelligence operatives did not know what “assets” like McGrath were up to in the home appears incredible.

In a sense, the allegations concerning a prostitution racket emanating from Kincora is an example of how far-out conspiracy theories can eclipse the true nature at the heart of a scandal.

The central question, which is raised by, among others, the loyalist blog ‘Balaclava Street’, is: did MI5 tip off William McGrath that Roy Garland had been telling people, including the Belfast UVF leadership, about the Tara founder’s sexual habits? This question was not properly investigated during the HIA inquiry and raises the possibility of a new investigation into Kincora.

When it comes to Ulster loyalism, in particular, there are more unfounded conspiracy theories than actual real scenarios. Republicans, of late, have been good at spinning the line that loyalist violence was never autonomous, or organic; that all the major pro-Union terror groups were controlled and directed by various branches of the security forces.

Such blanket theories can be contradicted by facts, such as the high rate of convictions for loyalist activists, or the fact that, if the UVF and UDA were so centrally controlled by an all seeing, semi-omnipotent British intelligence operation, then why were there not more members of the IRA killed, compared to the actual majority of the loyalist paramilitaries’ victims – politically uninvolved Catholic civilians?

Yet none of the above is to suggest that there weren’t individual acts of collusion between police officers, or Army intelligence agents, and the loyalist terror groups. (Although collusion itself is much more complicated than first imagined).

Take, for example, the scandal over Brian Nelson, the Army’s Force Research Unit (FRU) agent inside the UDA, who steered killers to murder an old IRA veteran in Ballymurphy in order to deflect them from their original target, an active IRA member, who, unknown to the UDA, was also an important British agent.

Kincora may not have been a “meat market” for Establishment paedophiles on both sides of the Irish Sea, yet the claims of Wallace, Garland and others that MI5 and others knew about what McGrath and his cohorts were up to remains a scandal without a just end.

Children suffered decades of sexual, physical and emotional abuse in homes run by the state, charities and churches in Northern Ireland, an inquiry found last week.

Sir Anthony Hart chaired the four-year Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry. He said payouts of up to £100,000 should be made to those who suffered the worst abuse or were sent to Australia.

Hart found “systemic failings” at 20 of the 22 institutions probed over allegations from 1922 to 1995.

But he rejected claims that a paedophile ring involving British establishment figures abused boys at the Kincora home in Belfast.

There have long been suspicions that security services protected William McGrath—who ran the home and did abuse children—because of his links to Loyalist paramilitaries.

Among the first to voice concerns was former Army information officer Colin Wallace in 1975. He was swiftly moved from his post.

Colin said, “The astonishing claim by the authorities, including the Intelligence Services, that they knew nothing about the allegations surrounding McGrath’s sexual activities until 1980 is a total travesty.”

Security services refused to give evidence. It emerged in the inquiry that files about Kincora have been “lost”.

Colin Wallace’s statement in full

Although I initially offered to give evidence to the Hart Inquiry, I later decided not to mainly on the grounds that the Government repeatedly refused to give it the same legal powers as the corresponding Inquiry in London. I believe that both the perception and the reality of the Government’s decision is one of unfairness to the victims.

Despite my decision, I did, however, provide the Hart Inquiry with 265 pages of comment and supporting documents, drawing attention to false or misleading information contained in the transcripts of the public hearings. My reason for doing so was to enable the Inquiry to investigate and corroborate the accuracy of my past comments about Kincora and related matters, and to provide the Inquiry with the opportunity to correct the relevant errors in the its published transcripts.

None of the information I provided to the Inquiry is new. Although some of it has not previously been in the public domain, it has been in the possession of the Ministry of Defence and other Government agencies for many years and should have been made available by those authorities to the Inquiry. It should also have been made available by the authorities to previous Inquiries and the Government needs to explain why that did not happen.

Even more worrying, is the acknowledged fact that key Army Intelligence files relating to Tara and William McGrath appear to have gone missing after they were handed over by the Army to MI5 in 1989, prior to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s admission to Parliament (30 January 1990) that Ministers had “inadvertently misled” Parliament about my case. There also appears to be no record whatsoever of what became of all the ‘Clockwork Orange’ project files which I handed over to my superiors when I left Army Headquarters in Lisburn in February 1975. Some of those files related to William McGrath. To make matters worse, it is now clear from the Inquiry’s transcripts that a senior MI5 officer, Ian Cameron, falsely accused me of ‘leaking’ information to the press about William McGrath. His claim was that I did so without authority.

The MI5 claim is bizarre because, as my army superior at the time has confirmed in the press, I was officially instructed by my superiors in Psy Ops, at the behest of Major General Peter Leng, to brief the press about McGrath as early as 1973, in a bid to draw media attention to his activities. I have no doubts whatsoever that because General Leng wanted the press to investigate McGrath, he had very good reasons for doing so and deserves credit for what he did.

It is also significant that the MI5 officer who accused me of ‘leaking’ information about McGrath to the press later refused to be interviewed by the Terry Inquiry investigators about why he ordered Army Intelligence officer, Captain Brian Gemmell, to stop investigating William McGrath. Clearly, the Army and MI5 had very different agendas regarding McGrath and his activities.

The astonishing claim by the authorities, including the Intelligence Services, that they knew nothing about the allegations surrounding McGrath’s sexual activities until 1980 is a total travesty. As my documents clearly show, it is simply not credible that I knew more about McGrath and his activities than the combined Intelligence community did in 1973/74. One must conclude, therefore, that the Intelligence Services did not tell the Inquiry all they knew about McGrath during the 1970s. Indeed, most of the information I possessed about McGrath in 1973/74 came from within the Intelligence community and was quite substantial. Moreover, my 1973 press briefing document clearly contains more information about McGrath than the Intelligence Services have claimed to the Inquiry that they possessed at that time! Finally, to suggest that because I gave the press the exact postal address (including the street number of the property) and telephone number of the Kincora home, but did not actually include the name, ‘Kincora’, that somehow invalidates my evidence, is an unacceptable attempt to avoid facing up to what I have been saying over the years. That information also shows that the claim made by the Intelligence Services to the Inquiry that they were not aware until 1980 of where McGrath worked is demonstrably false.

Overall, I believe the Inquiry has been a wasted opportunity to establish the full facts relating to this matter and I feel the victims have been let down yet again, as they were by previous inquiries.

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